Definition of monkey pot
1 a
:a large woody urn-shaped operculate fruit characteristic of the sapucaias and various closely related trees (as the manbarklaks)
b
:sapucaia;
also
:manbarklak
2
:a pot used in glassmaking;
specifically
:any of several round-topped oval cylinders enclosed in firebrick arches at the base of a chimney and used as melting pots in making of flint glass
